Let's jump for joy! Kim turns 45 on Saturday. Can he recreate this photo - 40 years after it was taken? Have a Happy Birthday, baby brother! 

The 2005 Relays claimed it had the 2nd largest crowd (24,200). Here's the crowd from 1967, which sure look huge. 1972 is the largest (30,000+?). It was one of the years, Jim Ryun ran. Here's the 100 race (can't remember if it was yards or meters); I think (Jim?) Hines was the winner. (gmw photo) 

The Krentz-Wees news

Got the news yesterday that my nephew, Adam Krentz-Wee, will be going to Washington University in St Louis next fall. St Louis is where his parents (Sam, my brother, and Rev. Elizabeth) were married. I first met the Krentz Family in St Louis. Carl Graesser, a good friend of the family, was a SLOC member and coined the phrase "stalking walking" in contrast to the "cunning running" to promote the sport.

The Krentz-Wees took a mid-April trip to Germany, including Tubingen where Elizabeth spent 12th grade. Her father, the other Rev. Krentz, and Carl spent many days in the Tubingen area.
Apparently, so did the the new Pope Benedict.

Small world, I was in St Louis a few days before Adams decisive trip to Wash U. Also in 68, could I have bumped into Joseph Ratzinger around SW Germany during a trip to Munich? Ratzinger's reactions to the student protests of the times were more theological than mine which were more mundane. French students in Bordeaux would throw bread at anyone in the cafeteria so bourgeois as to wear a hat to dinner.

KU Relays

Today is clear and sunny, a bit cool but the organizers hope for a record crowd today. Dee & I plan to be at the "Gold Zone" - the 2 pm to 5 pm prime time races.

The university 4-mile race last night was won by the KU. It was the 1965 4x1 mile relay I watched which impressed me about KU 's long history of good distance runners. While Tim Weaver has promoted this year's KU Relays as the best five spring relays, I would still disagree as the Penn Relays is so huge and on the East Coast and televised.

KU Relays (April 1965) - the high school mile. Jim Ryun is leading Wichita East teammate Mike Pederson. In 4th is Steve Perry, the junior from Wichita North. At the end of season, Perry had a 4:18 time - 3rd best mile time in the nation. That time was also the 3rd best time in Kansas in 1965. 

July 1950: This is a self portrait of King Mar taken in his one room apartment above the Pan American Cafe (150 N. Market, Wichita, KS). The business suit was typical of what he wore during the day as the manager/cashier of the Pan American. A nice photo using just the table lamps. An avid amateur photographer, he won trophies from the annual Shutterbug Field Days shooting color slides, stereo slides, black & white prints. His trophies were on display at the cafe. Models from the Stevens Beauty School posed for the amateurs at Riverside Park. This photo was originally a Kodak 35mm transparency.

Sat, Apr 16 (2005) Cliff Cave green course. One of my better O'runs - clean, not perfect, no big booms. Did not want to repeat the last short course experience (Dec Tall Oaks meet was a disaster - more time on the error on one control than the rest of the course). 2 to 3 was all trail and wondered if I could have handled the direct route this day. ET: 26:54 - first M55. Best time was 19 min among the intercollegiate guys.

Groundhog Run 2003 

Cyclocross race at Martin Park (Lawrence, KS) Dec 1976 Either Ed Abrahamson or Danny Caplan took this picture.

Opener

This blog was simply created to respond to other bloggers. Possible blog themes:
1. King and Me - My grandfather's name was King Mar. He owned the Pan American Cafe in Wichita, Kansas. Without looking up the exact dates, the cafe was around from 1913 to the 70s(?).
King was also an avid amateur photographer and an annual winner in the Wichita shutterbug competitions. I hope to share some of his photos on life in Wichita and of the Chinese-American community.

2. A shared blog for my brothers - the Five Chinese Brothers of Wichita.

3. sports - orienteering, cycling, and running